Inside King Wu's palace, there were Huben guards on guard everywhere, attendants and maids of honor kept their heads down and walked hurriedly, no one stopped to talk like usual, and no one had a smile on their face. In the king of Wu's splendidly decorated chambers, Yi Ji is listening to Artist Xin's boy report on the situation in Dacheng.
"You heard with your own ears someone in the Azure Mountain King's mansion shouting that the Prince was vomiting blood?" Yi Ji twisted a piece of brocade in her hand.
"Yes, ma'am, I heard noisy voices in the Ulsan Jun's mansion, saying that Artist Xin had died, Gongzi Guang vomited blood and fell unconscious, Sima Wei Ci came out of the mansion to dispatch the Huben, I felt that the situation was urgent, so I hurriedly left the city to send a letter to the king's capital." The boy rode horseback for three days and three nights to catch the road, the person has lost a lot of weight.
"Where's the other one?"
"Xiao Si wants to probe to ascertain the situation, letting the little man go first." The boy raised his eyes to see that Ri Ji's face seemed displeased, and hastened to add, "Xiao Si is a hard man, even if he is caught, he won't say anything." The little guy who stayed in Dacheng ranked fourth among the dead soldiers in training.
"Well done, after a while, Dr. Jiang will help you get rid of your pariah status, and will heavily reward you with a lifetime of wealth." Yi Ji pressed her chest, until now, she felt that the big thing was settled.
"Thank you, ma'am!" The boy was overjoyed, kneeling down and kowtowing heavily towards Ri Ji.
When the boy left, Ripple Ji summoned her beloved attendant and told him to go and execute the boy secretly, so that she wouldn't leave behind evidence to become a scourge like Crown Prince Zhao.
Arranging for someone to dispose of the boy, Ripple Ji walked into the King of Wu's chambers, there was a large bed in the center of the chambers, and the King of Wu was lying quietly on it.
"Madam!" The maid serving King Wu saw Ripple Ji come in and hurriedly knelt down.
"Is the Great King alright?" Ri Ji looked coldly at the maid's slightly trembling body.
"The Great King still hasn't woken up." The King of Wu had been unconscious for several days, before the night of the great change in the royal capital.
"Serve the king well and you will be rewarded later." Yi Ji walked to the bed of the king of Wu and surveyed this bony and no longer imposing monarch. This great king who used to make the whole Wu Kingdom tremble when he gently stomped his foot, was lying like an ordinary old man, without any intimidation.
"Thank you, ma'am!" The maid knelt and bowed before exiting the bedchamber.
"Today everything will settle down, great king you can rest assured, what the great king couldn't do, concubine helped you to do it, the great king's favorite son will inherit the throne in the future and become the lord of Wu, great king please rest assured, Yong's position will be as stable as a rock, the stones that got in the way have been removed by the concubine, the concubine moved them cleanly, not a single bit of them remained!" Ripple Ji used a handkerchief to wipe away the saliva that flowed out from the side of King Wu's mouth.
"Ma'am! Ma'am! Something big is wrong!" Dr. Jiang hurried in from outside.
"What's the big deal?" Riji frowned at the flustered Doctor Jiang.
"Madam, several feudal lords have brought troops outside the city." When the Hussar General left from the west gate, he not only burned the drawbridge, but also lit the beacon fire, and after the beacon fire at the west city gate was lit, the western-facing feudal lords saw the wolf smoke and brought their troops to the king's capital to attend to the king.
"What's the point of panicking, the Seal Lord came to be diligent to the King, to kill the rebellious party, this is a good thing!" Yi Ji was not alarmed.
Dr. Jiang muttered in his heart, killing the rebels is not killing us? Aren't we the rebels now?
"Have all the ministers of the royal court been invited?" The invitation Ri Ji said was to bring troops to invite them.
"All here, all in the council chamber."
"Bring them to the Great King's chambers." Ripple Ji pulls out the secret letter that she searched from the Crown Prince's residence, and puts the secret letter on the side of King Wu's pillow. Looking at the secret letter that stuck to the blood, Ripple Ji smiled slightly, did not expect to exterminate the crown prince's full door to exterminate an unexpected gain, with this evidence, save her a lot of things, but also let her son's throne more legitimate.
The ministers of the royal court were brought into the King of Wu's bedchamber by the attendants and the Huben of the royal palace, and beside the large bed in the bedchamber, Ri Ji, who was dressed in plain clothes, was kneeling beside the bed and weeping bitterly.
"Great King wake up! The Great King can't leave us mother and son behind!"
"Great King! Great King!" Tai Fu walked to the edge of the bed with one strong step, only to see King Wu lying on the bed with his eyes closed tightly and his face yellowish-white.
"Tai Fu! The Great King just said that the minister was summoned to issue an imperial edict, and when it came to the abolition of the crown prince, the Great King suddenly fainted in agitation." Ri Ji said as she handed a copy of the imperial edict that had already been stamped with a jade seal to Tai Fu.
Taifu opened it and saw that it was the imperial edict to establish Gongzi Yong as the crown prince.
"What abrogation of the Crown Prince? When did the Great King abolish the Crown Prince?" A minister behind the Crown Prince chided Ri Ji, the Minister of the Royal Court had been locked up in the Royal Palace for two days and still didn't know that the Crown Prince was dead.
"The king said that he could not let the ungrateful son sell the country and wanted to abolish the crown prince, but the crown prince heard about it, and together with the Western Sima, Wenzai and the Hussar generals, he brought troops into the palace to rebel, but fortunately, Dr. Jiang led the troops in time, and together with the Huben of the royal palace, they thwarted the conspiracy to abolish the crown prince." Yi Ji cried while handing the secret letter on King Wu's pillow to the chastising minister. "The abrogated prince and the rebellious party have been intercepted by the palace Huben."
The rebuking minister received the secret letter and took a look at it, on it was the content of the deal between the Crown Prince and the Lord of Zhao's three cities, with the seal of the Lord of Zhao in the signature.
Secret letters passed through the minister's hands, and for a time there was a cacophony of voices in the bedchamber.
"But there's still the second prince, Ulsan-kun! According to the patriarchal law, it should be Uisan-kun who succeeds to the throne." The Taifu handed the edict of succession to the ministers around him, the crown prince made a private agreement to sell out the city, it was reasonable for the King of Wu to be angry and abolish him, but according to the patriarchal law, the eldest should be established.
"Concubine read the imperial edict is also so persuade the great king, but the great king said that women shall not intervene in the affairs of the king's court, and also said that it is better to establish a long as to establish a wise man, if I had known that the crown prince will do this kind of sordid thing, it would be better to abolish it as early as possible, so that it can also save the crown prince's a life, and there will not be the father and son of the first two days of mutilation." Yi Ji snorted in her heart, Gong Zi Guang even if he is qualified, he should have a life to enjoy, the person who ate the broken heart grass and vomited blood will die. The nobles who opposed Yong's succession and went to embrace Gong Ziguang were destined to be disappointed.
"The Great King originally had his heart set on installing Duke Yong!" Dr. Jiang quickly stepped forward in support.
"Right! The Great King is pleased that Duke Yong is smart, so in addition to setting up a long, he can also set up a virtuous man." Duke Jiang's beloved came out to help.
The neutral ministers in the chamber felt that it was reasonable for the King of Wu to do so, and as the Taifu looked around the ministers and realized that the majority held a favorable opinion, he pondered for a moment to make a decision. "We'd better wait until the Great King is sober."
"May!"
"Right!"
The ministers had felt that this would be best, and if King Wu woke up and said something, then there would be no controversy at all.
"But the feudal lord outside the city was blinded by the beacon fire set by the great general and brought his troops to serve the king." Ri Ji's heart was so settled that there were no longer any ministers in the bedchamber who fiercely opposed her son's ascension to the throne.
"I'll go outside the city to explain to the bannermen." Tai Fu now had the highest prestige within the royal court, and it was only right for him to intervene in such matters.
"Thank you, Tai Fu!" Ri Ji was filled with gratitude.
That night, the king of Wu was princed, and the feudal lords of the diligent kings outside the city entered the city alone in sackcloth, and joined the ministers in the wake of the king of Wu, while obituaries were sent to all places, and wanted notices for the pursuit of the hussar generals followed the obituaries. Three days later, the king of Wu was buried, and Gongzi Yong succeeded to the throne. The first edict issued by Duke Yong after his succession was to call all the feudal lords to enter the royal capital to mourn the late king.
The day after Ripple's rebellion in the king's capital, the carrier pigeon brought the news back to the valley, Chu Chao Hui used the space letter paper to cover and read the note, began the general mobilization of the military, the soldiers in the valley and the south port canceled the vacation twenty-four hours on standby, the Su plains trained cavalry were all recalled, the infantry stayed one hundred in the Su plains villages and villages to guard, and all the others were withdrawn to the south bank.
Chu Chao Hui arranged everything, mounted a war horse to Dacheng to find Zheng Yuming, Gong Ziguang poisoning, Zheng Yuming and Wei Shen guarded in front of Gong Ziguang's bed without leaving a step, the affairs of Dacheng are now Wei Ren and Chu Chao Hui to take care of, Wei Ci went to Dacheng barracks to guard.
"Where is your lord?"
Chu Zhaohui to Gong Ziguang bedroom pounced, Gong Ziguang a few hours ago woke up once, drank some antidote licorice soup fell asleep, in front of the Gong Ziguang bed guard for three days Wei Shen and Zheng Yuming, was Wei Ren sent attendants to force to help to the side of the room to rest. Chu Chao Hui found Zheng Yuming's resting place and only saw Huo Sizhong dozing on the case table.
"Your Excellency went to the courtyard just now." Huo Si Zhong rubbed his eyes. "His Excellency said to go and be quiet for a while."
Chu Chao Hui frowned, Gong Zi Guang had woken up from his coma, why did Zheng Yuming's heart aggravate instead?
In order to prevent the assassin from hiding, there were no large trees in the courtyard of the Ulsan-gun's mansion, only short flowers and trees, and Jung Yuming was sitting on a stone bench in an osmanthus tree, with an altar of green wine by his side.
"Yuming, why don't you go take a nap?" Chu Chaohui sat down close to Zheng Yuming and put one hand on Zheng Yuming's shoulder.
"Can't sleep." Zheng Yuming gently brushed Chu Chao Hui's hand away and got up to stand away, his expression faint.
"What's wrong?" Chu Chao Hui's heart sank, Zheng Yuming had a smell of alcohol and resistance.
Zheng Yuming put both hands behind his back and looked up at the sky, it was a cloudy day with a strong wind.
"Aren't we being too presumptuous?"
"How self-righteous?" Chu Chaohui followed and stood up from the stone, staring intently at the back of Zheng Yuming, who now exuded detachment.
"Gongzi Guang everything today is caused by us." Zheng Yuming bowed his head and lowered his eyes.
"How could we have caused this? If it weren't for us, Gongziguang would have been dead on the return trip to the Harvest Festival!"
Zheng Yuming suddenly turned around, "Yes, without us, Gongzi would have died on his return trip, but if we hadn't presumptuously tried to push Gongzi to the throne, and exposed Ripple Ji's conspiracy right in the royal capital, Gongzi wouldn't have been poisoned today!"
"Yuming, we didn't realize that there were spies around Gongzi." Chu Chao Hui frowned, Zheng Yuming was blaming himself.
"Yes, we don't know, but as long as Ripple Ji is knocked out, Ripple Ji's dead soldiers will be able to find out, and the spies around the Duke will be pulled out, and he won't be in a life-threatening situation!"
Zheng Yuming's voice has regret, Gong Ziguang struggled in death for how long, his heart tormented for how long, Gong Ziguang for him, not only an ancient, feudal slave aristocrat, but also his friend.
"If we pluck Ripple Ji and let Crown Prince Zhao become the King of Wu, then we will be at peace with each other? The crown prince is a thin-skinned man, who can guarantee that the crown prince will not harm Gongzi?" Chu Chao Hui's heart was a little sour, Zheng Yuming's feelings towards Gongzi Guang were heavier than he thought.
"Yes, we analyzed and felt that this was the best for the Prince, so we acted on our own, no one bothered to ask the Prince himself if he wanted to do it, what did we take the Prince for? But in the name of doing him good, treating him like a puppet!" Zheng Yuming closed his eyes tightly.
Chu Chao Hui took a step back, both of his eyes narrowed slightly and his voice began to chill down, "Zheng Yuming, have you forgotten something?"
"What did I forget?" Zheng Yuming opened his eyes and turned his body to look at Chu Chao Hui.
"I see you've forgotten your ideals!" There was only a cold color in Chu Chao Hui's eyes.
"Forgetting about ideals?" Zheng Yuming was surprised.
"Nice! That first summer night, you and I were lying on the villa balcony, and you said you wanted to build a paradise where there was no hunger, no privileges, democracy, freedom. This you forgot?" Chu Chao Hui remembered that at that time Zheng Yuming's face shone brightly, and Zheng Yuming with his naive ideals appealed to him even more.
"I didn't forget." Jung Yuming was enlightened.
"Would such an ideal be realized peacefully? If it can be realized by sacrificing a Gongzi Guang, would you give it up?" Chu Chao Hui saw Zheng Yuming's face shift and the corner of his mouth rose slightly.
"No." Zheng Yuming bowed his head, yes, Gong Zi Guang and ideals placed on a scale, Gong Zi Guang is far less than the dream in his heart.
In the original time and space, the heavenly dynasty started the feudal rule for more than two thousand years since the unification of Qin Shi Huang. The feudal patriarchal rule became more and more perfect and rigid with the change of dynasties, and the two barbaric cultural rule of Yuan and Qing Dynasty made the whole society regress. Chinese temperament was missing after Yashan, no national consciousness after Manchu, no faith after the Cultural Revolution, and no morality after the Reformation. Zheng Yuming is a billionaire and a successful man in the twenty-first century, but as long as he reads about modern history, there is nothing else but pain in his heart.
Today's world, with the original time and space with the same roots, the social background is similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States, from the Zhou Dynasty onwards there is the idea of simple equality is still in people's memories, the idea of the commonwealth of ideas for the people to promote, a variety of ideas are just beginning to sprout, Confucianism did not have a family dominance. Zheng Yuming, after understanding the social conditions of Great Qin, the first thought was to change this society, so that the twenty-first century democracy took root in this land, so that more than two thousand years of feudal society to hell. He had been carefully cultivating the soil of democracy in Nambu and the valley.
Gong Ziguang character is light, for a gentleman, to Zheng Yuming and devotion is very, put Gong Ziguang on the throne of Wu, the most conducive to Zheng Yuming to realize the ideal, after the Harvest Festival, Chu Chao Hui and Wei Shen formulated a plan to support the Gong Ziguang on the throne, Zheng Yuming is the most active, so Gong Ziguang was killed, Zheng Yuming is also the most guilty.
"Zheng Yuming! There is no national ideal that can be realized peacefully, peace is never achieved by pouring blood, if you can't even survive this, don't you think that ideal of yours is too shallow?"
When Chu Chao Hui saw Zheng Yuming bowing his head, instead of going up to comfort him, he stabbed him hard.